Defending DACA recipients

UC has challenged the Trump administration’s decision to abruptly end DACA, the policy that has allowed nearly 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. as children to live, work and study in the only country they know as home.

The university is still providing free legal assistance to UC students and their families on immigration-related matters despite the COVID pandemic through the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center. Although the Center's attorneys are not on campus they are fully functional and available to help students and their families. Please contact them at ucimm@law.ucdavis.edu or (530) 752-7996 if you need assistance. If you are a UC Berkeley student, please contact instead https://undocu.berkeley.edu/legal-support-overview/legal-support-appointments/.

If you currently have DACA status and have not applied yet for renewal, we urge you to do so now and these organizations can help you do so. Renewal through USCIS no longer requires in person biometric appointments and they will use the information already on file.

The high court agrees to consider a supplemental filing regarding the real-world consequences of the COVID-19 global health crisis and the life-sustaining role of nearly 30,000 DACA recipients on the front lines.